A woman's work is never done

Cultural  

1. A woman must often work longer hours than a man. This comes from an old rhymed couplet:

   Man may work from sun to sun,

   But woman's work is never done.

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Example Sentences

When asked how it’s easier to be a man, one respondent, a woman, 65, said: “Because most of them don’t have to work outside the home and take care of the children and everything else a woman normally does. A woman’s work is never done.”

From New York Times

“I’m just tired and I can’t sleep yet. A woman’s work is never done, isn’t that what the fools say? Here,” she pulled a small pair of pants out of a basket at her feet and rummaged for a needle and spool of dark thread.

From Literature

Because a woman’s work is never done, it began.

From Time

For, notwithstanding the Men are commonly complaining how hard they are forc'd to labour, only to maintain their Wives in Pomp and Idleness, yet if you go among the Women, you will learn, that they have always more Work upon their Hands than they are able to do, and that a Woman's Work is never done, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

A Woman's Work Is Never Done," you quoted a man saying about Elizabeth's position, "Helluva job she's got.

From Time Magazine Archive